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I like her, too, but she's kind of a bonehead who takes herself too seriously and who has neither (imo) the intellect nor the fortitude to do great things. 

She will (again, imo) take 1 step forward and probably 1.5 steps back most of the time. 

She is not what the Democratic Party needs.

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Yes, of course. She is the only woman or woman of color the left right (edit) focuses their ire on. There are no other examples. Great point. It's really all intellectual and rational. And usually ver

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9 minutes ago, Asithappens said:

I like her, too, but she's kind of a bonehead who takes herself too seriously and who has neither (imo) the intellect nor the fortitude to do great things. 

She will (again, imo) take 1 step forward and probably 1.5 steps back most of the time. 

She is not what the Democratic Party needs.

3 for 3 on classic misogynist attacks against strident women

- not fun
- not smart
- weak

You absolutely nailed it.

The reality is this: She's shown good humor, she obviously thinks deeply and big-picture about things, and she is weathering massive media attacks with grace and positivity at a very young age.

Calm down and smile, babe, jeez!

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Yes, that clip, and the general coherency of it, are just like a flip side of Trump.  Sure.  More like the opposite.  I don't get the obsession, except, as previously explained, as an artifact of fear.

She's an optimist in a town of pessimists. She has two choices, join them or keep being optimistic.

We'll see how it plays out. 

I like her attitude, but I fear that the Machine will grind her down.

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53 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

3 for 3 on classic misogynist attacks against strident women

- not fun
- not smart
- weak

You absolutely nailed it.

The reality is this: She's shown good humor, she obviously thinks deeply and big-picture about things, and she is weathering massive media attacks with grace and positivity at a very young age.

Calm down and smile, babe, jeez!

I agree with everything you said except the bolded part.  I do think she's a bit of a dreamer, and she has handled this much better than Trump would have.  But I still think she comes off as not fully understanding the weight of what she's saying.  Not understanding exactly what she's trying to fix or even how to fix it.

Yes she wants to learn, and that's great.  She also needs to probably look deeper or do a bit more research before jumping into something with both feet(like the DOJ budget stuff where a little "deeper" look would have stopped her from getting attacked)

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I agree with everything you said except the bolded part.  I do think she's a bit of a dreamer, and she has handled this much better than Trump would have.  But I still think she comes off as not fully understanding the weight of what she's saying.  Not understanding exactly what she's trying to fix or even how to fix it.

I disagree completely, but would be interested to see that elucidated with some specifics. It's just such a vague critique.

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She also needs to probably look deeper or do a bit more research before jumping into something with both feet(like the DOJ budget stuff where a little "deeper" look would have stopped her from getting attacked)

There is nothing that will stop her from getting attacked. We shouldn't use the derangement of the right as a basis for critiquing the left. We have to critique the left on its own terms and in the light of facts and reason. You can literally say, "Do more research" to anyone at any time about anything.

It's just extremely difficult for me to sit here in 2018, read her words, and think there's a big problem with her grasp of the big picture. Yeah, she isn't batting 1.000, but she's already hitting way better than Congresspeople twice her age.

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Man I know you love her, and the way others in here are going after her is ridiculous, but there are plenty of examples that even you have seen, even if you choose to ignore it.

 

I think she'll be fine, and there's nothing wrong with trying to change things for the working class.  But my critique still stands.  I don't think she either fully researches before speaking out, or has a full grasp of what she's talking about at times( and to be clear, it's not just her, that's a problem with many politicians).  That's not saying anything that disparaging or hurtful about her.  It's just stating that she has room for growth, and that's obvious.

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Man I know you love her, and the way others in here are going after her is ridiculous, but there are plenty of examples that even you have seen, even if you choose to ignore it.

 

I think she'll be fine, and there's nothing wrong with trying to change things for the working class.  But my critique still stands.  I don't think she either fully researches before speaking out, or has a full grasp of what she's talking about at times.  That's not saying anything that disparaging or hurtful to her.  It's just stating that she has room for growth, and that's obvious.

JFC. You are judging her on tweets and shit. The only person who tries to pass laws by tweet is Trump. Let her actually put her 2 cents into some written bills and policies before you snap to judgments. 

Do you think Obama actually included 57 states in his draft EOs, or do you think he just slipped up in a statement?  

And bigger than that, she is fucking right. The military is a wasteful financial black hole, and worse, none of that waste is actually supporting our underpaid and underinsured troops. While you bitch about her off the cuff remarks, you are really just avoiding her underlying point. Healthcare for all is not only needed and possible, its also coming. You can be part of the solution or part of the problem. 

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JFC talk about snapping to judgements.

 

This is why I gotta remember to stay out of this fucking cesspool.  I like her, I like some of her ideas, but because I don't have the same opinion of her as you I'm doing something wrong?

 

Get over yourself.

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JFC talk about snapping to judgements.

 

This is why I gotta remember to stay out of this fucking cesspool.  I like her, I like some of her ideas, but because I don't have the same opinion of her as you I'm doing something wrong?

 

Get over yourself.

What opinion?  She made an incorrect math calculation. So what?  You are saying she needs to do research to send tweets.  Which actual opinion of hers do you disagree with?  Healthcare for all?

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27 minutes ago, Drew said:

Man I know you love her, and the way others in here are going after her is ridiculous, but there are plenty of examples that even you have seen, even if you choose to ignore it.

I asked for you to be more specific and this is your response?

lol ok bud

"What specifically is your critique?"

- "WHY DON'T YOU MARRY HER ALREADY YOU LOVE HER SO MUCH!"

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44 minutes ago, Drew said:

I agree with everything you said except the bolded part.  I do think she's a bit of a dreamer, and she has handled this much better than Trump would have.  But I still think she comes off as not fully understanding the weight of what she's saying.  Not understanding exactly what she's trying to fix or even how to fix it.

Yes she wants to learn, and that's great.  She also needs to probably look deeper or do a bit more research before jumping into something with both feet(like the DOJ budget stuff where a little "deeper" look would have stopped her from getting attacked)

AOC is very earnest, I'll give her that.

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http://reason.com/blog/2018/12/06/ocasio-cortez-pay-medicare-for-all-error

 

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The biggest takeaway from Ocasio-Cortez's tweet, then, isn't that a single legislator made an error, or even that single-payer proponents continue to have a considerable budget-math problem, although they do. It's that Medicare for All backers still face the fundamental challenge of defining and building support for a plan that doesn't yet exist. Until and unless that happens, Medicare for All will remain little more than a slogan advertising a fantasy of costless, frictionless government intervention.

 

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51 minutes ago, Drew said:

Man I know you love her, and the way others in here are going after her is ridiculous, but there are plenty of examples that even you have seen, even if you choose to ignore it.

 

I think she'll be fine, and there's nothing wrong with trying to change things for the working class.  But my critique still stands.  I don't think she either fully researches before speaking out, or has a full grasp of what she's talking about at times( and to be clear, it's not just her, that's a problem with many politicians).  That's not saying anything that disparaging or hurtful about her.  It's just stating that she has room for growth, and that's obvious.

Wait til this guy learns who the president is!

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Wait til this guy learns who the president is!

Doesn't matter.  President is a rich white dude.  He can make all the mistakes he wants on twitter, and Drew won't care a bit about his lack of research before tweeting.  Or the fact that he suffers from a lack of research on official White House statements and Executive Orders as well.

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While I agree with the statement that Democrats can't sell M4A until they come up with a cohesive idea of what M4A actually means to them, this kind of logic is idiotic...

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Even if you think the economy could withstand such a large and rapid shift of resources from the private to the public sector, an assumption I don't share, the politics make such a transition effectively impossible. Sanders' left-leaning home state of Vermont couldn't stomach the tax hikes required to implement a state-based single-payer system. It's even harder to imagine a majority of the rest of the country supporting a plan like this. The dual questions of how to pay for it and how to build political support for whatever pay-for is settled on represent a substantial practical challenge to any single-payer campaign.

Doing this as a state alone is far less efficient and far more complicated than doing it as an entire nation at once. A state taking on that kind of burden might put itself at a disadvantage to other states and invite unwanted "immigration" (for lack of a better term). Everyone jumping in together and working in together is far more attractive than a piecemeal approach.

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While I agree with the statement that Democrats can't sell M4A until they come up with a cohesive idea of what M4A actually means to them, this kind of logic is idiotic...

Doing this as a state alone is far less efficient and far more complicated than doing it as an entire nation at once. A state taking on that kind of burden might put itself at a disadvantage to other states and invite unwanted "immigration" (for lack of a better term). Everyone jumping in together and working in together is far more attractive than a piecemeal approach.

Not to mention that, without a SALT deduction, Vermonters still have to buy $1,000 staplers for federal offices and 100s of million dollars worth of shit for the military to "lose" in Iraq.  By themselves, they can't get healthcare instead of these things. 

Plus, its difficult for them to keep Cletus from Arkansas out who spent his whole life hating on universal care, who after losing his job and insurance, and subsequently getting diagnosed with colon cancer, sees that he can get a minimum wage job as a Vermont resident and get affordable health coverage from their system.  Cletuses are going to drive their cost per person way up when they don't enter the system until after they are sick.

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She's an optimist in a town of pessimists. She has two choices, join them or keep being optimistic.
We'll see how it plays out. 
I like her attitude, but I fear that the Machine will grind her down.


I think there’s a good chance she leverages her time in Congress into a very lucrative career in the private sector. She doesn’t strike me as a career politician and she may piss off some of the old guard.
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4 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

Yes because data misinterpretation is the same as Palin spewing racist and homophobic diarrhea. Both sides!

Who, besides you, said it was the same?

There are other aspects to this than racism/homophobia, if you care to look at it. And it seems that you don't.

 

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1 minute ago, Asithappens said:

I think it's kinda hard. Maybe even more than kinda hard.

Not really. The problems are easily identified. Entrenched financial interests with strong lobby power, misaligned incentive structure and reimbursement systems, disengaged patients, providers forced to tailor their practice of medicine to external influences having nothing to do with outcomes, waste fraud and abuse, inefficient regulatory bodies that don't include health economics in their approval processes, etc. I've said it before and will state again. I could identify 4 or 5 surly posters and we could pull up to a picnic table and back of the napkin a functional, cost-effective, and outcomes-oriented healthcare system over a few pitchers. And maybe some brisket. What we couldn't do however is overcome the political obstacles to implementing such a system. 

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Not really. The problems are easily identified. Entrenched financial interests with strong lobby power, misaligned incentive structure and reimbursement systems, disengaged patients, providers forced to tailor their practice of medicine to external influences having nothing to do with outcomes, waste fraud and abuse, inefficient regulatory bodies that don't include health economics in their approval processes, etc. I've said it before and will state again. I could identify 4 or 5 surly posters and we could pull up to a picnic table and back of the napkin a functional, cost-effective, and outcomes-oriented healthcare system over a few pitchers. And maybe some brisket. What we couldn't do however is overcome the political obstacles to implementing such a system. 

You have to have enough political will to fix healthcare.  That's the real issue. 

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On 12/4/2018 at 10:58 AM, RomaVicta said:

Negged for pushing a distortion. She mispoke by using the word branches, but she was talking about what could be taken over through elections. It's obvious. She wasn't asked to name the three branches of government nor was she trying to. 

Work on intellectual honesty. Stop being a lying/obfuscating amateur political operatives. The professionals at least get paid to destroy their integrity.

With all due respect, you described 99% of the posts this board. If have watched a couple of her interviews. Can you objectively state she seems smart? While I disagree with her politically, I respect a lot of people with whom I disagree. She's basically a congressional Sarah Palin. I realize I'm in the minority, but I would rather have smart, ethical, politicians regardless of whether they always agree with my views (which certainly do not line up along party lines).

The interview below is a great example of why she does not exactly scream Mensa.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/09/16/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-40-trillion-dollar-spending-plan-sotu-vpx.cnn

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With all due respect, you described 99% of the posts this board. If have watched a couple of her interviews. Can you objectively state she seems smart? While I disagree with her politically, I respect a lot of people with whom I disagree. She's basically a congressional Sarah Palin. I realize I'm in the minority, but I would rather have smart, ethical, politicians regardless of whether they always agree with my views (which certainly do not line up along party lines).

The interview below is a great example of why she does not exactly scream Mensa.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/09/16/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-40-trillion-dollar-spending-plan-sotu-vpx.cnn

She done goofed for sure and hopefully for her sake she works on building her policy knowledge but that mistake doesn't means she's objectively not "smart." If you're feeling generous you can probably describe her policy knowledge is pretty typical of others in congress unless they're a self-styled policy wonks like Ryan (chortle). 

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1 hour ago, Kyle said:

With all due respect, you described 99% of the posts this board. If have watched a couple of her interviews. Can you objectively state she seems smart? While I disagree with her politically, I respect a lot of people with whom I disagree. She's basically a congressional Sarah Palin. I realize I'm in the minority, but I would rather have smart, ethical, politicians regardless of whether they always agree with my views (which certainly do not line up along party lines).

The interview below is a great example of why she does not exactly scream Mensa.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/09/16/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-40-trillion-dollar-spending-plan-sotu-vpx.cnn

That's not what I claim. You slip into another form of distortion. I suspect you know it.

Do you believe that she cannot name the three branches of government? Do you believe that is what she was trying to do? Do you disagree with me about the context of her remarks?

I was specific in what I negged. Your post was furtherance of an intentional distortion of the facts.

Your entitled to your opinion of someone's intelligence and competence. I'm tired of idly allowing dishonesty to just pass. Your post was dishonest.

This is my jihad. May the swords run with the blood of the dishonest. We will all drink Scotch on Brisket's balcony.

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Who cares if our politicians are smart or dumb?  Woodrow Wilson was incredibly brilliant, and he was also a racist anti-semite.  Politicians are good/bad based on the idea/policies they support, not on how smart or experienced they are.  

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